It doesn’t happen very often that restaurants exceed expectations, but Chef Ruth Hansom’s cooking does exactly that at Pomona’s Restaurant.

November marks the anniversary of the death of Antonio Carluccio, the legendary Italian chef who made Britons take mushrooms seriously at Carluccio’s.

North-west London’s Finchley Road has never quite made its mind up. On one hand, it’s a sprawling main road of coffee bars, apartment buildings, launderettes and offices and on the other, it flirts with the well-heeled of Hampstead and Swiss Cottage.

Anthea Gerrie reviews Tredwells in trendy Covent Garden.

Anthea Gerrie reviews Studio Olafur Eliasson Kitchen at Tate Modern

When two close friends from Kolkata (or Calcutta as we call it in the West) decide to work together, that alone is a tough enough test of friendship.

Wiltons Restaurant has made eight moves since starting as a shellfish-mongers in 1742 in London’s Haymarket – a plenty swanky address in recent centuries, but back then, just that – a market selling hay.

Andy Mossack reviews Novikov Restaurant and Bar, owned by Russian entrepreneur Arkady Novikov, apparently a buddy of President Putin.

Andy Mossack reviews Orient London in the capital’s famous Chinatown